مجال
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تميز دراسي وبحثي + إبداع علمي (جائزة تفوقية)
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البحوث المنشورة
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البحث (1):
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عنوان البحث:
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Linking Multimedia Vocabulary CALL Research
to SLA Cognitive Theories
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رابط إلى البحث:
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تاريخ النشر:
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26/07/2017
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موجز عن البحث:
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Researchers
in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) have been focusing
on vocabulary – alongside grammar – more than other language areas and skills
[22]. Vocabulary learning has attracted instructional designers and has led
to the introduction of a wide range of technologies including courseware,
dictionaries, online activities, corpora and concordancing, and
computer-mediated communication technologies [38]. To investigate whether the
design of these digital resources was theoretically grounded, this paper
presents a review of experimental studies on vocabulary CALL for second
language learners. In order to inform the future e-learning design, this
review aims to explore the most striking SLA cognitive theories – if any – to
which designers of multimedia vocabulary CALL drew their interventions. It
has been found that most of the previous studies focused on employing
multimedia technology on strengthening the link between the form of a word
and its meaning with no emphasis on aspects of the word knowledge beyond
that. Moreover, for the informants in this review, the design of the
intentional language-focused vocabulary CALL software as well as the
incidental meaning-focused ones has not been found to effectively
operationalise SLA cognitive theories.
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المؤتمرات العلمية:
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المؤتمر (1):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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3rd
International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture in Education
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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12 – 14 Jul
2016
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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Venice, Italy
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Poster Presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Employing zoomable user interfaces in
teaching L2 word associations
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ملخص المشاركة:
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This
study will explore the effects on the successful acquisition of Arabic
vocabulary as a foreign language in a multimedia CALL environment via an
interactive zoomable user interface using (CAVA), a Computer Assisted
Vocabulary Acquisition software for intentional vocabulary learning designed
by the researcher. Presenting the words in lists, mostly grouped
thematically, is the most common method of introducing vocabulary and that
hasn’t changed over the years despite the pedagogical changes in the curriculum.
This way of presenting words has its advantage in knowing the word form or
meaning, however, knowing the word associations should be taken in account
when designing vocabulary CALL programs as this might promote the development
of lexical networks. Employing technology in teaching associations as an
important dimension of the word knowledge could help to create extra links
between the words resulting in a faster and more effective storage and
retrieval of lexis.
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المؤتمر (2):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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IAARHIES 40th International Conference on
Social Science & Humanities (ICSCH)
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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27-28
December 2016
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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London, UK
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Oral Presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Zooming in on a Bilingual Mental Lexicon
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ملخص المشاركة:
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Kormos
(2011) argued that the long-term semantic memory contains the bilingual
mental lexicon which consists of a hierarchical structure of three levels:
conceptual, lemma and lexeme level. Any L1 or L2 lexical item is stored in
the same lexicon and has information spread in these three levels. The
conceptual level entails the semantic information of the lexical item whereas
the lemma and lexeme levels contain the syntactic and morpho-phonological
information respectively. The conceptual level in her model is seen as a
store of both L1 and L2 concepts which can be identical, shared, or even
separated. Each concept in this level has a network of memory traces which
carry its different semantic information. When the concept called out in the
semantic memory, it will be active a long with its semantically related
concepts. For example, when the concept CHILD is activated, related concepts
such as MOTHER, PLAY, and LOVE in both languages also receive activation.
However, selection is made only for the intended concept. This study aims to
explore the effectiveness on L2 word learning via different types of
presentation in vocabulary CALL environments (e.g., multimedia
representations versus standard presentation methods). This study aims to
investigate whether technology can enhance and facilitate the spread of
activation to the intended lexical item through its semantically related
words at the conceptual level (as proposed in Kormos’ model). This should
better achieve the aim of relating the effect of CALL research on vocabulary
learning.
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المؤتمر (3):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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British Association for Applied Linguistics
(BAAL) VOCAB SIG
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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03-04 July
2017
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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Reading, UK
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Poster Presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Considering Working Memory Abilities in
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interventions
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ملخص المشاركة:
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Allan,
Baddeley and Hitch (2006) made a distinction between visual and spatial
working memory abilities although they work together in practice. Tasks have
been developed to differentiate between spatial memory (remembering where)
and visual memory (remembering what). Corsi span is an example of a spatial
task invented by a Canadian neuropsychologist where the participant imitates
a sequence of taps on a number of blocks made by the experimenter who
increases the length of the sequence to a point at which performance break
down. The participant in this task remembers “where” the right location/order
of each tap was. Visual span, on the other hand, can be assessed by many
tasks such as matrix patterns, in which the participant sees a pattern and
when it disappears he has to reproduce it by pointing to the filled cells in
the empty matrix. In this task the participant has to remember “what” the
pattern looks like. The number of cells in the matrix is increased until
performance break down.
This idea of
separation is supported by additional neurological evidence found. Such
studies supporting the notion of the separation have shown that different
brain regions are involved during visual and spatial tasks. During visual
tasks, the ventral prefrontal cortex is activated whereas the dorsal
prefrontal cortex is generally activated during spatial tasks.
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present study is employing the visual working memory and also is taking
advantage of the spatial one. To achieve this, a Computer Assisted Vocabulary
Acquisition (CAVA) program was designed by the researcher to teach L2 words
via three different multimedia representations.
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جوائز التكريم:
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الجائزة (1):
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مسمى الجائزة:
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IAARHIES Excellent Paper Award
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الجهة المانحة:
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IAARHIES
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تاريخ منح الجائزة:
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28/12/2016
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مجال التكريم:
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Excellent Content Award for the presentation of the paper “Zooming in on a Bilingual
Mental Lexicon” presented in the IAARHIES 40th International
Conference – ICSCH – 2016 .
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